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Salvation for Zion

Isaiah 51:15

In 11 translations

BSB
For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD of Hosts is His name.
KJV
But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
WEB
For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. Yahweh of Armies is his name.
ASV
For I am Jehovah thy God, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
LSV
And I [am] your God YHWH, || Quieting the sea when its billows roar, || YHWH of Hosts [is] His Name.
YLT
And I [am] Jehovah thy God, Quieting the sea, when its billows roar, Jehovah of Hosts [is] His name.
DBY
And I am Jehovah thy God, who raiseth the sea, so that its waves roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name.Elohim
DRC
But I am the Lord thy God, who trouble the sea, and the waves thereof swell: the Lord of hosts is my name.
GNV
And I am the Lord thy God that deuided the Sea, when his waues roared: the Lord of hostes is his Name.
JPS
For I am the LORD thy God, who stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar; the LORD of hosts is His name.
LXXE
for I am thy God, that troubles the sea, and causes the waves thereof to roar: the Lord of hosts is my name.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְאָֽנֹכִי֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ רֹגַ֣ע הַיָּ֔ם וַיֶּהֱמ֖וּ גַּלָּ֑יו יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת שְׁמֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br
ὅτι ἐγὼ ὁ Θεός σου, ὁ ταράσσων τὴν θάλασσαν, καὶ ἠχῶν τὰ κύματα αὐτῆς· Κύριος σαβαὼθ ὄνομά μοι.

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  • Jeremiah 31:35Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
  • Isaiah 54:5For your husband is your Maker— the LORD of Hosts is His name— the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.
  • Amos 9:5–6The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn— all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt— He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His…
  • Psalms 114:3–5The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back; the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
  • Psalms 74:13You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
  • Jeremiah 10:16The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance— the LORD of Hosts is His name.
  • Isaiah 51:10Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
  • Isaiah 47:4Our Redeemer—the LORD of Hosts is His name— is the Holy One of Israel.
  • Psalms 136:13He divided the Red Sea in two His loving devotion endures forever.
  • Job 26:12By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
  • Isaiah 48:2who indeed call yourselves after the holy city and lean on the God of Israel; the LORD of Hosts is His name.
  • Nehemiah 9:11You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.

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